The European Commission published, on Wednesday 14 September, its proposal for a regulation to combat forced labour in the wake of its President’s State of the Union speech.
Around 27.6 million people are in forced labour worldwide, according to a report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) published on 12 September.
“We must act on this, and therefore we propose a system to eliminate force labour products from EU market”, said the EU Commissioner for Trade, Valdis...